Is there a difference between voluntary prayer and the Sunnah?

The questioner : All right, Shaykh, the difference between voluntary prayer and the Sunnah, did you mention the difference in one of the tapes?

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : It seems you mentioned in one of the tapes...

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : And you said that some of the Sunnahs are called voluntary prayer.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : How do we distinguish between this being Sunnah and that being voluntary prayer?

The Shaykh : No, here the difference is verbal and expressive. I mean, since you heard the tape, perhaps you remember the hadith of al-Najdi who came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him what Allah had made obligatory upon him, so he mentioned the five prayers for him, and he said to him: Is there anything else upon me? He said: , so I said: If I had any say in the matter, I would prefer to name the Sunnahs that the jurists call Sunnahs in their terminology as voluntary prayer. Why? Here does not mean the hadith, but rather what is below the obligatory in worship, but rather it means in the hadith: "My Sunnah is my methodology, my path, my way," and so on. And I think this is clear to you? And because the matter is confused for some jurists, if not the ones who study jurisprudence, who first do not distinguish between the authentic hadith and what is below it in weakness and what has no basis, when they speak about the regular voluntary prayers (rawatib), they bring a hadith encouraging them, and this hadith has no basis in the books of the Sunnah. If this hadith were authentic, his saying: would be like his saying: , so in order for the legal custom not to be mixed with the technical custom, I said what I said, some of which you mentioned just now, that if I had any say in the matter, I would agree to name what the jurists call Sunnah as voluntary prayer, because first, this is what the Messenger named, and second, naming voluntary prayer as Sunnah would create confusion, not with the general public, but with some of the specialists, as I gave you an example in the hadith that has no basis. , otherwise I do not mean distinguishing between voluntary prayer and the Sunnah. Is that clear to you?

The questioner : If Allah wills.

The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The student : Where did you hear this tape? When did you hear this tape?

The Shaykh : Not long ago.
The student : It is new.

The Shaykh : That is it.
The student : Because it is new, that is why. You are releasing the new ones. This is Abu Layla's luck.

The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : This is new.